I could do without the personal attack, thank you....
You'd make a good Klingon!![]()
Personal attack? Really? You need to lighten up, it was a joke, do you not see the Klingon smiley?
That pablum has been served on toasts many times but it doesn't apply to situations like this.TNG made it a point to show that humanity had evolved enough to attempt communication with the entity before resorting to destroying it. In fact, it looked like they were beginning to communicate with it when Doctor Marr caused its destruction. Wouldn't it have been better to try and understand the entity and its needs instead of destroying it?
The writers seemed to think so. Sure, you could destroy the single entity but what if there were millions of them out there? Wouldn't it be better if we were able to communicate with it, and find a way to co-exist peacefully? That's part of the whole premise of Star Trek, "to seek out new life and new civilizations."
If some crazy man is at the top of a tower shooting people at random, you're allowed to take him before he does more damage. That's called defense of others.
Poor analogy. A crazy man isn't the same as a totally new life form in which we know little about.